Shika was suddenly awake. Her mind had made that leap between unconsciousness and waking in an instant. Lazily she moved her arm toward her face to rub the sleep from her eyes but the arm was restrained. “Oh,” she thought. “I’m still in the acceleration tank” Moving her left hand to the side of the tank she could just reach the release catch allowing the re...
Deon sat on the front stoop of the rundown apartment building smoking a cigarette and waiting for his friends to get there so they could discuss the plan for that night. Deon, at 5'5" and 135 pounds soaking wet, had recently been released from prison for armed robbery and was lucky to have found a room in this rundown shithole apartment building. As soon as...
The flight landed on time at the Perth International Airport. She got up slowly – form her executive class Raffles seat and reached out for the cabin baggage and waited for the announcement to disembark. It had been a long flight – she had made it finally – made it to meet Dean and that was a long struggle. Ratan and Balu did everything to spoil the party bu...
I guess the first clue should have been coming home from work to discover that Jackie my wife was fixing one of my favorite meals. Something I normally only got on the weekend when she had plenty of time to prepare it without feeling rushed. The second and even more obvious clue should have been finding a glass of my favorite scotch waiting for me on the ta...
My daughter Rosie was excited about the camping trip to Vermont. She would be going with her cousin Megan, her roommates Lauren and Kayla, and her BFF Caitlin and meeting up with Megan's ex Jerome, Kayla and Lauren's brother Ike, and Megan's brothers Darren and Justin. "Will your brothers have to sit at the kiddies' table?" Lauren teased Megan. "They're a...
Author's note: This is another part in the continuing adventures of Jack Hart. While attending the IdeaCity conference in Toronto during June 2002, he was invited by Moses Znaimer, one of the organizers, to attend a of series special parties for conference guests and the employees of his television station, CITY-TV. Jack's first encounter was with the dimi...
The day had started off hot and sunny. The fourteen of us had broken camp at eight A.M., and already we had been perspiring as we loaded the canoes with tents, bags, and all the assorted stuff that seven couples carry with them on a week long canoeing expedition. We were on Kootenay Lake in the Selkirk Mountains of British Columbia. My wife and I had been sh...
The Brown Bag By Jess Faulks Captain Rhiannon McDonnell wasn't halfway between the swinging, stainless steel doors and her intended stool when the brick-shithouse-of-a-man behind the bar noticed and sized her up. Gloss-black , featureless eyes made his exact focus less apparent but she knew the look: it was the one everyone in a position of authority gave...
Geoff walked into the dimly lit waiting room. His eyes took a few moments to adjust from the bright lights of outside making the room seem even darker than it was. A soft fragrance of scented candles filled the air along with light, relaxing music. Even if he did know where he was he would have known it was a massage therapy front office. Everything seemed d...
The following story is fiction and does not describe any real person or situation in particular. Both characters are at least eighteen. * When I was a senior in high school I had a girlfriend named Misty. It was one of those marching band relationships where a really cute color guard girl hooked up with a brass player for the season. Misty was a really swe...